Advanced Numerical Study
3D Numerical Simulation - MEDUS 2009The Maritime Engineering Division of the University of Salerno (MEDUS) developed a new procedure for studying in greater detail the interactions between maritime breakwaters (submerged or emerged) and the waves that hit them by making integrated use of CAD and CFD software.
In the numerical simulations, the filtration motion of the fluid within the interstices, which normally exist in a breakwater, is estimated by integrating the RANS equations, coupled with a RNG turbulence model inside the voids, instead of using classical equations for porous media.
The breakwaters were modelled, in analogy to full size construction or physical laboratory tests, by overlapping three-dimensional elements and having the numerical grid thickened in order to have some computational nodes along the flow paths among the breakwater’s blocks.
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